11/12/13

Quiz yesterday was a huge failure, lots of wailing an gnashing of teeth all day, so adjusting to have less covered on the hard topics and add some more fiction back in

Covering colonialism with Almayer's Folly and Kipling's autobiography

Talked about colonialism first

Einstein, Hayak

Murderous Maths, Fred

Math Mammoth, writing, reading

sewing projects on the side, some house cleaning and cooking from recipe book from library

New Quiz:

 

11/12/13 Quiz

1.  How did Fred get Bobbie to give him the remote control for Roger?

2.  How did Dolly get the gang out of jail?

3.  Hayak believes Western Civilization was distinct because, being based on Christianity and the thought of ancient Greece and Rome, it concentrated more on the

______________ than on the _____________.

4.  What is totalitarianism?  Why does Hayak think has led to the totalitarianism in his lifetime?

5.  Close to a black hole, the path of light is curved so that you might be able to see

around _______________.

6.  Name one problem with the use of a rubber sheet with weights on it to model the curvature of space around massive objects?

7.  What is happening to the river as Almayer watches it?

8.  Who is Nina? Who was her mother?

9.  Almayer’s family is from the Netherlands.  How often has he been there himself?

10.  Why did Almayer agree to marry Lingard’s adopted daughter?

11.  What is an ayah?

12.  So far, we have seen four different places Kipling lived as a child.  Briefly describe three of them.

13.  Why did Kipling begin to have a hard time in school?

Extra Credit: 

1.  How did Almayer’s youth affect his hopes for the future?

 

2.  Kipling was often accused of lying as a young child.  What kinds of thing did his accusers call lies that Kipling thought were not lies?